Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-25
General state News.


MOTHER AND CHILD.
A few days ago child of A. q. Deming,
of Middletown, died of diphtheria. On Mon
day the mother died of the same disease at
the age of thirty-nine.
THE DERBY EXTENSION.
BIRMINGHAM, Aug 24-Engineers COM
manced this morning to stake out the route
for the Derby extension. The route chosen is
the one surveyed by the defunct Housatonic
Valley company.
DIED IN sIMsBURY.
Mrs Jane Wilcox, widow of Newton Will
COX, died OH Tuesday of last week at the
house of Mr.. Orlando Dean in Simsbury,
where she has lived for a few years past,
aged eighty-four.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
The board of education in Mansfield voted
Tuesday to change the Harper's Biographies
now in use for Harpers new and revised
series and to substitute Harper's Language
Lessons for Greene's grammars now in use.
LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA.
Mr. Howard P. Merrill of the Springfield
Union has resigned and is to go to the Los
Angeles, Cal, Times-Mirror. He has for
year or more been the leading cycle writer of
the eastern daily press. He leaves for Cali
fornia September 9Th.
A SEAMAN DROWNED.
BRIDGEPeRr, Aug 24.-John New, deck
hand on the schooner Jennie Rogers, fell
from the vessel while at the wharf in this
city Tuesday night and was drowned. His
body was recovered last night. He was forty
years old and belonged in Lowell, Mass, and
was shipped at New Haven.
SAVED HER LITE.
A Bethel girl attempted to board an ex-
cursion train for Glen Island Monday morn
ing after the cars had started. She missed
her footing and fell between the moving cars,
but brakeman caught hold of her and held
form until the cars passed and she escaped
unhurt.
MANY LETTERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN.
Three postoffice inspectors have recently
been at work in Meriden. The Journal says:
'fThe thieves have stolen from letters going
out of town checks and money orders to q
large amount. One firm has had seven
checks stolen from letters in one month, and
yet, SO far as can be learned, there has been
no attempt to have them cashed."
SUDDEN DEATH AT WILTON.
Mrs. Smith of Danbury, who has been an
invalid for some time, started on Tuesday
morning by rail for trip with view of re-
gaining her health. When, however, the
train reached Wilton she had grown so rapid
ly worse that she was removed from the train
to the station and DIR. Gorham summoned
Before the doctor reached the station she had
expired.
MooDUs, Aug. 24.-Francis Wayland Knee
land, graduate of Rochester Theological
seminary, will be ordained at the Moodus
Baptist church next Tuesday. Rev. Wallace
Fl. Butrick of New Haven, who was a GLASS;
mate with Mr.. Kneeland, will preach the or
dination sermon. Judge Francis Wayland,
of New Haven, will also attend. Mr.. Knee
land yUaa narnad for the iu5oafa father
KILLED BY THE CARS.
Dennis Mccormack, of Willimantic, died
at the Hartford hospital Tuesday afternoon
of injuries received near Buckland's station
during the morning. He was stone mason
and one of gang at work on the tin bridge
between Buckland's and Manchester. In
jumping off the train he struck the ground,
rolled and was caught under the cars and
badly mangled, his right leg being nearly cut
off at the hip. The limb was amputated, but
he failed to rally.
THIS IS A GOOD LAND TO LIVE IN.
Colonel A. B. Wood, United States consul
at Dundee, Scotland, arrived in New York
Friday on his summer leave. He came to
Norwalk, Conn, Saturday aud is visiting
friends there on Belden avenue. He was for
many years prior to going abroad chief of
the consular bureau in the State department,
Washington, and is a son of the late Rev.
Daniel T. Wood, long noted Presbyterian
divine at Middletown, N. Y. His mother
was Sherwood from Greenfield Hill and
relative of the late Mrs. Governor Bissell of
Norwalk. The co1onel's residence on the
other side of the ocean only makes him the
more intense an American, and in riding
about the picturesque town he was heard to
exclaim, 'This is Gods countryl'
THE DANBURY NEWS MAN.
J. M. Bailey, known as the Danbury News
man, is another example of humorist who
has more than his share of trials. He is a
large, handsome man, with black eyes and
dark hair plentifully sprinkled with gray.
He lives very quietly in Danbury, and is
either at his little Office on Main street or at
his modest residence, with its pretty green
lawns and beds of flowers. He never spends
an evening away from home and has not
been outside of Danbury for years. His
poor wife has lost her reason and demands
all of his attention. She thinks nobody
in the world can do anything for her ex-
cept her husband. He must dress her and
arrange her hair and attend to all her wants.
She is like child and he gives her all of his
affection, time and attention. His devotion
is something heroic and beautiful Upon
one occasion, SO the people of Danbury say,
she went to his Office and asked him to do up
her hair. 1t had fallen down. He arranged
it for her in the pleasantest manner possible,
did all she asked without the least annoyance
and then took her home.-Aartford Post.
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tisement for DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.